Sentences with phrase «with infant baptism»

I could see someone getting that feeling with infant baptism, in which one employs supernatural forces over another, but less so with adult baptism, which whatever it is, is done to oneself.

For instance, faith appears incompatible with infant baptism, and the national church appears contrary to personal commitment and choice.

Not exact matches

Either we prove several verses in the Bible that deal with the gay issue are false; we declare, like the Pope does, infallibly that those pages will be struck from Bible; we add new verses so the other verses are neutralized; we stop reading it, prohibit its usage, like Catholics, and have: idolatry, Popes, idols, saints, priests, infant baptism, purgatory and gays in the «christian church»!

While a baptismal service was in progress, he arose to dispute the practice of infant baptism as un-Biblical and proceeded to take each point from the pastor's sermon and to answer it with Baptist views.

Thinking this through with considerable sympathy for the LDS leadership, it occurred to me that we Catholics might reflect more seriously on what is really required of us with respect to baptism, especially of infants.

The sources of the trinitarian doctrine is quite clear from history, and with it came beliefs in various things like transubstantiation, theosis, that Mary was a perpetual virgin free from sin, infant baptism, ecclesiastical hierarchy, bishop succession, the phoenix, that the world is made up of fire, water, earth and air, and that things formed of one element are immortal while things formed of many elements are mortal.

Scripture repeatedly describes baptism as occurring in conjunction with repentance, and I see absolutely no evidence that Jesus, the apostles, or members of the early church engaged in infant baptism.

Get connected with the releasing power of his death and resurrection through faith and sacramental baptism (infant baptism is valid).

My restiveness was increased by memorizing Luther's Small Catechism for confirmation, and by, arguments in boarding school with, for example, Southern Baptist classmates about such matters as infant baptism.

A Catholic baptism is valid, but only becomes effective, if someone repents and believes that he has got metaphysically connected with Christ's sacrifice by the sacramental baptism (mostly infant baptism).

The services of marriage and infant baptism (or dedication) are family - centered rites, ways of dealing with the anxieties and mystery surrounding sex and love, birth and growth.

So, on this view, if someone disagrees with them about the millennium, about infant baptism, about the role of women in ministry, they are quickly labeled a heretic.

This is indicated by the fact that along with one article entitled «The Authority and Justification for Infant Baptism,» [17] there was another entitled «The Authority and Justification for Believers» Baptism.»

Although this paper has been concerned with tracing the issue regarding infant and believer's baptism within the ecumenical movement, other important points regarding baptism in the Indian context can not be brushed aside.

Aquinas is credited with strengthening the Catholic understanding of infant baptism and crystallizing the Catholic ban on birth control.

In as much as the Church of North India will have within its membership both persons who practise Infant Baptism in the sincere belief that this is in harmony with the mind of the Lord, and those whose conviction it is that the Sacrament can only properly be administered to a believer, both Infant Baptism and Believer's Baptism shall be accepted as alternative practices in the Church of North India.

In this book, the author, a Baptist, concludes the section entitled «The Rise and Significance of Infant Baptism,» with the words: «It seems that a small amount of water is bestowed on a small infant with a very small rInfant Baptism,» with the words: «It seems that a small amount of water is bestowed on a small infant with a very small rinfant with a very small result.

We are reminded of our own holy dance with God when the minister, after baptizing an infant, saunters down the center aisle of the sanctuary and reminds those gathered to «Remember your baptism and be thankful.»